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GIRCULARB:. 


Bureau OF Conscription, 
Richmond, Va., March 30, 1863. 


Phe War Department has seen reason to remind all officers engaged in 
_ recruiting and conscription, that the execution of the conscript act is o 


acts of exemption important in a personal and public view, and that 
summary proceedings, in the spirit and style of the press-gang, are in 
every way subversive of the true interests of recruiting, as 3 well as offen- 
. sive to law and humanity. 


Key. This bureau has always indicated these principles, and although there 
appear to have been some, yet the Superintendent trusts there are very 
few of the officers acting under the bureau who have ever made them- 
selves liable to this admonition, other agencies having been at work, and 
having often overstepped their proper limits. 


Commandants of conscripts will make it a point to sce that each and 
every enrolling officer understands that he is not serving his country by 
: yi hasty action, practically nullifying the right of appeal from his decision. 
‘Men who present plausible grounds of exemption, as being foreigners, 
ty or over age, or claiming an examination by a full medical board; where 
A? they allege that a single medical officer has er roneously held them to be 


physically capable of service, must not be assjgned, or dragged to the 
army, till their cases have had a fair hearing. 


a On questions of domicil or age, the party is entitled to the benefit of 
a his own affidavit, if not rebutted by evidence or violent presumption to 


sf the contrary, but in the final decision of the cases of foreigners there 


must be cumulative testimony of a or neighbors to support the | 
, affidavit. « i 
By order of the Superintendent. > 
a A. C. JONES, 
Te oF ee . Lt. Col., A. A. Gent. 
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